The six-bedroom, seven-bathroom Georgian-style mansion designed by Harold Reeve Sleeper and a 2,400-square-foot guest cottage were demolished to create nine new lots. Paul Simon previously owned the estate and his daughter Lulu Simon grew up there and publicly expressed anger toward Richard Gere. Gere purchased the property for $10.8 million in 2022 and reportedly planned a working farm with mushrooms, honey, and possibly goats. Gere and his wife Alejandra Silva later sold the property off-market to developers for $10.75 million after deciding to move to Spain. Architectural elements including mid-century bay windows, limestone mantels, colonial window sashes, a Greek-revival doorway and an oak library were salvaged and offered for sale.
The six-bedroom, seven-bathroom Georgian-style mansion, which was designed by architect Harold Reeve Sleeper, was demolished along with a 2,400-square-foot guest cottage to make way for nine new lots. This is likely sad news for Simon's daughter, Lulu Simon, who grew up in that house and hates Richard Gere. ("I hope my dead pets buried in that backyard haunt you until you descend into a slow and unrelenting madness," she wrote in July.)
At the time, he and his wife, Alejandra Silva, reportedly wanted to turn the estate into a working farm with mushrooms, honey, and possibly goats. (To the trepidation of their neighbors. "How bad is goat manure?" a member of the local planning commission asked in a meeting. "There's no odor with goats," Gere explained. "It's very small pellets, like a rabbit.")
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